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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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0:31.9	Like you're drowning, but rest ashore. What fresh hell. Laughing in the face of motherhood.
0:38.7	So we need young, healthy candidates, right, if you're going to run through the street.
0:42.0	With Margaret Abels and Amy Wilson.
0:44.7	Hortense is the meanest name I can think of.
0:47.5	A podcast that solves today's parenting dilemmas so you don't have to.
0:52.2	Yeah, as long as you have your phone with you, you're good.
0:54.5	It's your Desert island object. Hello, everyone, and welcome to what fresh hell laughing in the face of
1:04.9	motherhood. This is Margaret. And this is Amy. And this week, it's a fun one, you guys. We're going to
1:09.8	talk about the dumb things we
1:11.3	thought when we were kids we for sure thought were totally facts that were not facts
1:16.5	yes this is somewhat based on the fact that my dad my father's father they lived in view of what used
1:26.5	to be known here in New York as the Tappin Z bridge.
1:30.2	Now the Governor Mario Cuomo Bridge, but I'm kind of team Tappan Z ever, Mario Cuomo never
1:36.4	bridge. It's like Shea Stadium Tap and Z Bridge. Right. You can try to update me, but
1:41.1	yeah, you could just tell my age because I'm always going to call it the tap and see.
1:44.8	It's the tap and z. And there was a light switch on their wall that didn't work, and he would go over.
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